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In my judgment the United States can meet any burden, can meet any challenge, can meet any responsibility, but it cannot possibly do so unless the President of the United States and the country moves to finish the unfinished business of…
This country cannot afford in 1961, 4 more years of Republican leadership.
I have never believed in retreating under fire.
That is not the Presidency for which I run.
The Communists have a strategy for world conquest and that strategy rests in the future, as it has in the past, on the use of every weapon of economic and ideological conflict to win the allegiance of the uncommitted nations of the world…
Above all, we must encourage the production of earnings and channeling them back into further productivity.
He says our prestige was never higher, that we have never been stronger, that the tide in world history is moving in our direction, and that if we continue our present policies, by 1965 and 1970, the United States will be secure and the …
You have my pledge that I will do all in my power to live up to the faith and trust you place in me by your action.
And my only pledge to you is this: That if I am elected I will summon all the resources of this great and strong Republic to make the coming years the years when freedom grew strong and began to move ahead.
Our position is one of certainty, that the future can belong to freedom, that this country can be secure, that we can turn the balance of power in our direction.
Mr. Nixon and I disagree very basically on the position of the United States, on what must be done to increase our security, and what must be done to maintain the peace.
In the long run, the most effective antidote for inflation is increased productivity and greater production.
Certainly this is not the time for an increase in tax rates.
The development of a relatively small hydrogen warhead has made missiles the key to future military power.
Words are not a substitute for strength.
I believe that this is a time of danger and of opportunity.